Expect more handshaking Donald Rumsfeld is in Germany today to attend the 10th anniversary ceremony of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Patenkirchen (where it is much nicer when you can ski…). The German Defense Minister is also going to be there, thus the expected handshaking.
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Ausstoepfeln.
Timothy Garton-Ash’s “Unplug Yourself: Media Is Matrix” essay in German. From Sueddeutsche.de
Akaba is in New Hampshire
Richard Chaim Schneider thinks that the the Akaba agreement is not really getting anyone on any road for peace but was in fact the beginning of the American Presidential Campaign 2004. Otherwise, he asks, why should anyone be interested in repeating the processual mistakes made in the Oslo agreements, as the Roadmap does? From Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
The Granita Deal. In writing.
The Guardian has obtained a document outlining the political deal Tony Blair and Gordon Brown struck when Brown stepped aside in favour of Blair in the Labour party leadership contest in 1994.
Stefan Smalla explains
Stefan Smalla explains why US litigation laws are probably a serious health hazard to all of us. I wonder if it will one day be possible to sue a government for inaction about such problematic institutional set-ups?
Giscard unveils new institutional deal.
Amidst more and less serious threats of non-ratification by several member states, the European convention’s presidium continues to try to broker a deal… from EUObserver.
Eudora 5.2.1
A quick note to everyone experiencing problems to send authenticated Email from Eudora 5.2.0.9. The new realease fixes this truly annoying problem! And it works!!!
S&M.
When I was “tied” to the chair of my dentist today, I could not help but wonder if the fact that her initials are S&M does have something to do with her professional choice…
Unplug Yourself
In the Guardian, Timothy Garton-Ash is looking at last week’s news in a somber mood – “Perhaps we live in the Matrix after all. Wherever we turn, we find a politics of manufactured reality that recalls the world of that cult film. How can we, the citizens, unplug ourselves and fight it?”
Make War. Then Love.
Well, not quite love, but it’s closest capitalist pseudo-substitute. According to this Reuters report, a Nevada brothel has come up with a truly unusual marketing ploy.
It is offering 50 “free rides” to US military personnel with Iraq exposure – “‘We want to feel patriotic and feel we are doing something for our servicemen,’ [a brothel representative] said. ‘If we owned a Dairy Queen we would be giving away free ice cream…'”